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Charlotte, Vermont 05445. ededown Outstanding quality 100% pure down comforters imported from Switzerland (Not sold in stores) For color brochure write Edeldown, Box 99 Waverley MA 02179 Moynihan's major primary opponent, Mrs. Abzug (who, of course, had nothing to do WIth the pie), might have contributed to Moynihan's one- per-cent margin of victory in the pri- mary. In the more recent incident, the pie missed Beame, except for a few stray crumbs that landed on hIs shoul- der, and the Times, which had en- dorsed Cuomo, made less of the event. A week later, the man turned up in Washington, where he threw an apple pie at Gordon Liddy, who wasn't a candidate for any office. "It's a way to deflate the dignity of these people who violate the rights of others," he said. Asked who had won the Cooper UnIon debate, Mrs. Abzug said, "The pie." ^ S Primary Day approached, there n was a general belief that the pub- lic was not only badly confused by the multitude of candidates but also bored and possibly convinced that it didn't much matter who was mayor-a con- dition considered favorable to the pros- pects of the incumbent, who might thus win by default. An average of about three-quarters of a million voters had taken part in recent Democratic pri- maries. Although the last DemocratIc mayoral primary, in 1973, followed a controversial and spirited campaign, only seven hundred and seventy thou- sand voters, or about thirty-two per cent of those registered, showed up at the polls. In 1977, perhaps In a reflec- tion of the nationwide disillusionment with politicians, local Democratic regis- tration is down from two million four hundred thousand in 1 973 to about two million, and the estimates were that some six hundred and sixty thou- sand Democrats would bother to vote this time. Instead, nine hundred and ten thousand, or forty-five per cent of those registered, voted, demonstrating that they did care who was mayor. (In the runoff, only about eight hundred thousand turned out, but that forty-per- cent rate was still a substantial show- ing.) For the Republicans, unfortu- nately, the surprise was of another kind. Good news for the city's endangered- speCIes Republican population is rare, but this time the news was even worse than expected. It was predicted that, of NeVvY York's four hundred and twenty- five thousand registered Republicans, perhaps a hundred and fifty thousand would vote. Instead, the total in the primary was just under eighty thou- sand. The 1977 primary campaign was also notable in that it was the first in which either a woman or a black was a candIdate for a majol-party mayoral OCTOßER. .3, I 9 7 7 nominatIon. Mrs. Abzug's fourth place in the !)emocratic race, with seven- teen per cent of the vote, and Sutton's fifth place, with fourteen per cent, constituted a clear setback for local affirmative-action forces. But a bright spot for feminists as well as for other admirers of State Senator Bellamy was the fact that in the five-candidate race for the presidenc)' of the City Council she got twenty-five per cent of the vote to thirt) per cent for the incum- bent, O'Dwyer. She then won the run- off by fifty-nine to forty-one per cent. F or blacks, there was no similar conso- lation. Sutton had to give up his bor- ough presidency in order to run for mayor, and City Clerk David Dinkins, the black candidate to succeed him, came in a poor third, after Manhattan Assemblyman Andrew Stein and Man- hattan City Councilman Robert Wag- ner, Jr. This means that, beginning January 1 st, the Board of Estimate, which considers much of the city's leg- islation and is made up of the mayor, the president of the City Council, the city comptroller, and the five borough presidents, will be without a black member for the first time in twenty- four years. Some comfort was briefly taken in the fact that the eleven per cent ot the vote won by Badillo, who came in sixth in the Plimary, combined with the four- teen per cent won by Sutton suggested that local minority groups might do very well if the blacks and the Puerto Ricans could ever get together and back a single candidate The prospects for such a maneuver have not improved since the primary. On September 11 th, three of the primary losers-Sutton, Badillo, and Mrs. Abzug-held a joint press conference to announce that they would stand together and not endorse either runoff candIdate unless they got an agreement on a long-range urban polIcy that would benefit the city's poorer citizens. The coalition lasted less than a day. Badillo did not show up for a scheduled meeting of the group with Koch-the session was held In the office of Koch's public-relations con- sultant, David Garth, which is the way things are done nowadays-but instead sent word that he had endorsed Koch, who immediately made him co-chair- man of the Koch campaign. "Oh, Her- man!" said Sutton sadly when he got the news. "I guess Eddie outbid me for Herman," said Cuomo. During the campaign, Sutton had accused Koch of using racial code words and stirring up white fears of blacks and Hispanics, and he announced that he would re- Inain neutral in the runoff. ("1 have no